Word: lighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese got a mighty shock. Midway was ready. This much the Japanese might have expected: Midway's defending Marines had repulsed five lighter attacks. What the Japanese patently did not expect was the strength of the forces on and around Midway. Marine Corps fighters instantly took the air. On Midway's field were Army bombers, warmed up and ready to track fleeing Japs to their carriers. Anti-aircraft fire blanketed Midway...
Britain used her big fellows-Stirlings, Halifaxes, Manchester. They pulled over Cologne with split-second precision, while lighter bombers-Beauforts, Bostons, Hampdens-engaged German fighters or whirled low over the targets, sowing incendiaries. When the big bombs began to land, the heart of Cologne burst into flame. Shattered buildings tumbled, great craters were torn in the ground. All this airmen saw from aloft, where the light of Cologne's fires was soon bright enough to illuminate the blacked-out attackers...
...dive-bomber found her. Within 70 seconds the Kelly sank, Lord Louis and some of his men escaped. Standing on a life raft, he led his men in a cheer for the dying Kelly. Down with her went two of Lord Louis' prized possessions: a silver cigaret lighter from his cousin, the Duke of Windsor, and a photograph of the reigning King and Queen. Both the lighter and the picture were inscribed: "To Dear Dickie With Love...
Fortnight ago Rear Admiral John Wills Greenslade, commissioning Moffett Field in California as a base for blimp patrols on the West Coast, said: "To date on both coasts no convoy has been successfully attacked while under lighter-than-air convoy." He might have said more...
Blimps as convoying weapons are uniquely fitted for anti-submarine work off the U.S. coasts, where they have no fear of air attack. The British have used one kind of lighter-than-air protection in barrage balloons trailed behind ships to make dive-bombing and mast-level bombing hazardous...